Skipping from one story to another and scrambling their relative chronologies, Drama/Mex presents a flashy package, but that only reveals the paucity of its ideas.
Drama/Mex
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Mexico · 2006
1h 33m
Director Gerardo Naranjo
Starring Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana García, Martha Claudia Moreno
Genre Drama, Romance
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Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in Acapulco. Beautiful and cool Fernanda is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions.
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Gerardo Naranjo's deliriously trashy Drama/Mex may not do much to burnish the international prestige of Mexican cinema, but it's an entertaining blend of obvious influences, from softcore cable-TV porn to Tarantino to "Less Than Zero" and "Leaving Las Vegas."
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.
You want to hate his characters? Go ahead. You want to feel sympathy for them? That's OK too. In either case, you'll be shaken by Drama/Mex.
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